NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2010

It's been a few weeks since Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin was handed a 30-day jail sentence after being found guilty of extreme DUI. The goalie was at work Friday for the first day of training camp. He says he is taking the conviction very ser

It's the fastest growing run in Canada. A record 14,000 people are ready to run, roll or walk in this year's Army Run on Sunday.

The annual Wings Over Gatineau show will take place on Saturday. This year, the show will commemorate Canada's Victoria Cross Recipients in the First World War and Second World War.

A fuel tanker that was stuck in the Northwest Passage for two weeks is allowed to have its diesel cargo pumped back on board for transport to remote Nunavut communities.

Ontario is heading for conflict with First Nations, native leaders said Thursday after the province moved ahead with contentious legislation governing northern development.

Canada is preparing for a possibly lengthy standoff with Russia over Arctic seabed riches, announcing it is now confident it has amassed sufficient scientific evidence to back a claim for a coveted underwater mountain range near the North Pole.

A newly-published book by a retired NORAD officer predicts October 13, 2010 as the tentative date for a fleet of extraterrestrial vehicles to hover for hours over the earth's principal cities.

RCMP have arrested a man on criminal libel charges after messages critical of the Calgary Police Service were posted on a U.S. website.

A Fayette County man is in jail awaiting a hearing on rape and assault charges while his alleged victim remained hospitalized with serious injuries from the beating, state police said.

Britain's child slaves: They started at 4am, lived off acorns and had nails put through their ears for shoddy work. Yet, says a new book, their misery helped forge Britain

The Duke of Edinburgh has sparked controversy during the Pope Benedict XVI's visit by asking Scotland's most senior Conservative politician whether she owned a pair of tartan knickers.

B.C. police have one person in custody in connection with the gang rape of a teenager that took place during a rave at a home in a Vancouver suburb.

In contrast to several erroneous reports earlier in the day, former NHL head coach Pat Burns is alive, Burns phoned TSN on Friday.

The B.C. Teachers' Federation says it's concerned about a Metro Vancouver school program funded by the Chinese government.

The suspect in a fatal hit-and-run in Surrey, B.C., has turned himself in to police, a day after the victim's mother made a tearful public appeal for information.

A woman who claimed to have had acid thrown in her face by a stranger actually threw it on herself, police in Vancouver, Wash., said Thursday.

Villagers in a Southeast Asian country captured an animal last month that hasn't been seen for more than a decade.

Vancouver police say that every 37th vehicle on the road is driven by someone who is impaired, and they have had enough.

The Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile launched from central California's Vandenberg Air Force Base successfully reached its target near Guam.

Yahoo Inc. wants to prove it has regained its technological stride after years of meandering that have caused the Internet company to lose ground to its rivals.

The fish are hard to look at. One whitefish has a golf ball-sized tumour bulging from its side. Another is simply missing part of its spine, its tail growing from a stumpy rear end.

Gwyneth Paltrow gushes over gluten-free. Chelsea Clinton's wedding cake was baked without it. The new Old Spice guy avoids the ubiquitous protein to help stay buff. In fact, odds are good you too have tried -- or at least encountered -- a product with the

A former sex crimes investigator says anyone who posts pictures or video of the gang rape of a 16-year-old B.C. girl to the Internet, is not only re-victimizing the young woman, but committing a criminal offence.

Crown witnesses will continue to take the stand Friday in a Barrie, Ont., court where a mother is being tried for the deaths of her two infant daughters.

Police set up extra checkpoints and NATO troops were on the move across Afghanistan Friday, securing polling stations and searching for suicide bombers and insurgents one day ahead of parliamentary elections.

Five men have been arrested in London over an alleged plot against the Pope, prompting police to ramp up security measures across the city, authorities said Friday.

While we swagger through middle age, the old man down the street is violently fighting against the dying of the light.

A lifetime of rage, fuelled by alcohol, exploded on the night he kicked a friend to death with his steel-toed boots for reasons he can't even remember, an Inuk man told his victim's grieving family as he was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday.

One man is dead and two others are in hospital after a transport truck plowed into a group of cyclists from Ottawa on a New Brunswick highway Thursday.

Karl reached hurricane force in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday after dumping heavy rain on the Yucatan Peninsula. It was expected to strengthen more before hitting Mexico's coast near a port and an oil hub sometime Friday.

Canadian researchers say they may have discovered part of the reason why autism spectrum disorder is four times more common in boys than girls.

A coalition of consumer and environmental groups rallied in Prince Edward Island on Thursday to condemn a U.S. company's plan to produce genetically modified salmon, the first transgenic animal set for human consumption.

A federal judge will announce Friday whether four MV Sun Sea migrants who've been ordered released from detention will actually get out of custody.

The MS Society of Canada says it will put aside $1 million aside in case a patient trial of the "liberation treatment" is ever approved.

The RCMP has apologized for an emergency dispatcher's mistake which played a part in the death of a young Aboriginal woman six months ago.

Police say photos of a 16-year-old girl being gang-raped at a rave in suburban Vancouver are being posted on Facebook and passed around in e-mails and text messages that one detective called "disgusting."

A former hooker-stripper admitted she was drunk and high on ecstasy, marijuana and cocaine when her abusive pimp pulled a fetus from her womb in December 2003.

An Ottawa X-ray technician and new father charged in an alleged homegrown terror plot faces new allegations of possessing explosives that carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Here we go again, folks! Remember the outrage in Parliament when it was revealed that serial killer Clifford Olson, at age 70, was getting old age and security pension of close to $1,200 month?

The leader of the Parti Quebecois believes the Montreal Canadiens hockey team has become a promotional tool for Canadian federalism.

Michael Jackson's mother on Wednesday sued the promoter of what were intended to be the pop star's comeback concerts for fraud and other claims related to the singer's death.

The number of women around the world dying from complications during childbirth and pregnancy has fallen by a third in the past two decades, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

When it comes to cyber crime, almost all Canadians expect they will be victims but almost half think it's OK to "steal" movies and music online, a survey suggests.

A convicted bomb maker who testified at the Air India trial of two men charged with mass murder told blatant and silly lies to protect the accused, mislead the court and save himself from retribution, a Crown lawyer says.

The nearly 500 Tamils who arrived on the MV Sun Sea last month must be kept in custody until Ottawa is absolutely sure of who they are, a government lawyer told a Federal Court judge Wednesday as she objected to the release of one of the passengers.

President Obama is still a hit with the nation's book buyers.

A proposed right-wing, all-news TV network says it's "full steam ahead" despite the sudden resignation of its high-profile and politically connected frontman.

The driver of a Toronto-bound bus was using a personal GPS when he drove the double-decker vehicle into a low railway bridge in central New York, a crash that resulted in the death of four passengers.

Canadians are living longer after a diagnosis of cancer, a new report from Statistics Canada suggests, with the survival rates for most types of cancer up since the 1990s -- sometimes by a big margin.

Edmonton high-school students that were stranded on a remote B.C. logging road for nearly 24 hours are happy to be alive after their trip to a marine biology centre went dramatically awry.

A Kelowna woman is the first confirmed case of human infection by the West Nile virus in B.C. this year.

In an 'extremely rare' find, British researchers believe they have uncovered an entire suit of Roman armour. Cardiff University archaeologists have been excavating a Roman fortress in Caerleon, South Wales when they made the "extremely rare" and "really s

The Ottawa Senators will mark their 20th year in the modern-day NHL by hosting the 2012 NHL all-star game.

Microsoft unveiled the "beta" test version of Internet Explorer 9 on Wednesday, a web browser that taps into the powerful processors in newer computers to make websites load and run faster.

After eight months, 2010 is running neck-and-neck with 1998 for the record as the hottest year at this point. The planet's average temperature for January-August was 58.5 degrees Fahrenheit (14.7 Celsius), tying the record heat set for that period in 1998

A mortar attack by Palestinian militants and airstrikes by Israel formed the grim backdrop as Mideast leaders ended their latest round of peace talks in Jerusalem Wednesday, still divided on major issues.

Conservative ministers launched a defence of plans to spend upwards of $9 billion on stealth fighter jets, arguing that the purchase will bring Canada security and jobs.

The NHL would be happy to return to Quebec City if a new arena can be built, but it won't enter the political debate to help make it happen, commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday.

A fuel tanker carrying 9.5 million litres of diesel in the Northwest Passage was finally dislodged early Wednesday from a sandbar it had been stuck on for the past two weeks.

A Winnipeg-built mosque on a 4,000-kilometre journey to Inuvik nearly took a dip in a creek in the Northwest Territories.

Victoria and Ottawa-area museums are returning 276 historic and spiritual artifacts to the Nisga'a, a First Nations group in northwestern B.C.

Sprains. Cuts. Bruises. Not exactly life threatening health situations in everyday life but in unforgiving environments such as the high Arctic, these same situations may lead to some very extreme consequences.

EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Eskimos are willing to court controversy to turn the floundering franchise around. But desperate times call for desperate measures, it seems. The 2-8 Eskimos reached out Tuesday to hire Eric Tillman, a three-time Grey Cup winner b

Critics of the Harmonized Sales Tax say there's no reason to hold the referendum on scrapping the tax until next fall when it could be over and done with this year.

Instead of souvenirs, a group of Edmonton students is bringing home a story of adventure after their bus became stranded on a remote Vancouver Island logging road this week.

A young woman killed in a car accident sent concerned text messages to friends shortly before the fatal collision, a Newfoundland court was told before sentencing the driver to nearly two years in prison on Tuesday.

Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a perennial candidate with no government experience, soundly defeated veteran politician Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware Tuesday -- posing a major upset to the political establishment on

Four cabinet ministers are flying to the defence of the decision to spend $9 billion on fighter jets, in an attempt to counter the whipping three others are likely to receive over the deal at a parliamentary committee.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan � Drone aircraft unleashed two missile attacks in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border Tuesday, making September the most intense period of U.S. strikes in Pakistan since they began in 2004, intelligence officials said.

Veteran character actor Harold Gould, who played Valerie Harper's father on television's "Rhoda" and the con man Kid Twist in the 1973 movie "The Sting," has died. He was 86.

Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings underneath were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, the French capital's police headquarters said.

Authorities say injuries have been reported in an explosion at a southwest Tennessee plant that makes flares for the military. Cris Hill, a dispatcher at ...

There's an air war in the town of Knowlton in Quebec's Eastern Townships involving a First World War German fighter. The biplane is the star attraction of a local museum. Some people want to sell it and make the museum rich, while others want to keep i

The families of two young women whose car was hit by an accused drunk driver on Vancouver Island in 2007 are outraged after charges against the man were thrown out because of RCMP mistakes and excessive court delays.

The controversial airport tunnel debate is gaining momentum as the leader of Wildrose Alliance Party weighed on the issue promising to pressure the province to reconsider the project.

A former street-gang hang-around won't qualify for victim's-rights compensation after he was shot and left paralyzed in an ambush during a violent gang war.

President Barack Obama has written a book for children that focuses on inspirational leaders from American history.

The National Rifle Association, a powerful lobbying group in the United States that advocates fewer gun controls, has been actively involved in trying to abolish Canada's long-gun registry for more than a decade, CBC News has learned.

Hurricane Julia has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, making it the fifth hurricane of the season in the region, forecasters said Tuesday.

Family and friends are mourning the death of longtime Ottawa business leader and football great Val Belcher who passed away while waiting for a heart transplant in hospital.

The Ottawa Hospital is speeding up plans to deal with mould growing in some of its rooms after a concerned patient contacted CTV Ottawa about the problem.

The BC Lions are welcoming back the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian, defensive end Ricky Foley.

Quebec's ruling Liberals breezed to victory in a yesterday's byelection in Montreal's Saint-Laurent riding.

The U.S. is putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a new round of talks begin in Egypt.

The editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal is pleased that while the provincial health ministers are interested in studying a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis, they won't yet fund the treatments.

Aircraft and ships are continuing a search for a fishing boat with four people on board that's missing in the Bay of Fundy.

Authorities in the Czech Republic have banned Google Inc. from continuing in its mapping feature "Street View" in the eastern European country.

It's a big day for Halo fans. Halo Reach, the latest installment in the futuristic Halo video game franchise, comes out today.

Eileen Nearne died alone, uncelebrated, facing a pauper's funeral despite her extraordinary record of wartime heroism for Britain.

The number of people going hungry in the world has fallen for the first time in 15 years, but experts say the drop is not likely the beginning of a trend.

The labour productivity of Canadian businesses fell 0.8 per cent in the second quarter after gains in the previous two quarters.

Canadians are buying new trucks, minivans and SUVs in growing numbers, fueling a strong increase in new vehicle sales this summer, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.

Two years after U.S. authorities seized a Canadian-born child and placed him in foster care during a visit to Oregon, the state is now suing his mother for the cost of that seizure.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the government was aware of an impending influx of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees well before a boatload of nearly 500 migrants arrived in British Columbia last month.

Iran's state news agency says an American woman freed from prison in Tehran will travel to Oman where her mother is already waiting for her.

An Abbotsford, B.C., man changed his plea to guilty for slitting his five-year-old stepdaughter's throat with a kitchen knife on Monday in a Washington State courtroom.

Almost 60 per cent of Canadians live paycheque to paycheque and say they'd be in financial difficulty if their paycheque were a week late.

What started as a pair of small computer programs is now a world-beating industry

On Sunday, September 19, Canada will mark the 70th anniversary at the Battle of Britain during a national ceremony at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.

An American woman on trial in central Newfoundland for shooting her husband to death in 2006 became hysterical when she learned of her husband's death, a court was told Monday.

Searchers in Nova Scotia are looking for a missing scallop-fishing vessel in the Bay of Fundy.

A 54-year-old man from North Rustico, P.E.I., pleaded guilty Monday to stealing thousands of dollars from the local legion.

Half of the operating rooms at the Dr. Georges L. Dumont Regional Hospital in Moncton, N.B., are closing temporarily due to mould in the hallway leading to the operating rooms.

A well-known Ottawa fertility doctor is being sued by two women who claim he inseminated them with the wrong sperm.

Southern Canada lost more than 1.4 million Olympic-sized swimming pools' worth of fresh water annually between 1971 and 2004, an overall loss of nearly nine per cent, a newly released study shows.

Japan is taking aim at Ontario's green energy policies. The country plans to file a complaint against Canada, saying it shouldn't allow Ontario to treat local companies favourably in subsidizing the cost of solar and wind power generation.

Ontario's push for green energy has sparked a dispute with Japan, which is poised to launch a formal complaint over government subsidies for firms that are building solar and wind power projects in the province.

An expedition to map out the last resting place of the Titanic was back at sea Monday and continuing its work of preserving a virtual record of the world's most famous shipwreck.

Canadians put themselves in a vulnerable financial position because they took advantage of low interest rates during the recession -- and bit off more than they could chew.

The federal and provincial governments have committed to help clean up Lake Winnipeg over the next several years.

A bus with 10 students and two teachers from an Edmonton school aboard that had been missing on Vancouver Island has been found, police say.

Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted.

At least 15 people were killed Monday when a Conviasa plane carrying 51 people crashed during a domestic flight in Venezuela.

Canada's military won't investigate British media reports that Canadian soldiers have smuggled heroin out of Afghanistan because such claims are bogus, a spokesman said Monday.

Canada's Defence Department quietly began a major inquiry into the Afghanistan operations of the military's elite special forces unit two years ago

VANCOUVER - Jurors at a political corruption trial in Vancouver leafed through a raft of confidential documents related to the sale of BC Rail on Monday as a Crown witness described what the fallout would have been if any of them landed in the hands of a